| Current Issues Forum of San Diego - "Matching donors to organs: The politics, ethics and economics" |
Starts:08:15 PM, October 18
End Date:08:15 PM, October 18 |
| Location:
San Diego Natural History Museum |
To RSVP call (619) 594-3095 or e-mail CIFSD@mail.sdsu.edu
Today, there are over 92,000 people waiting for organs and each day eighteen of them will die before they get one. The wait in many locations is over five years and by 2010, it is expected to double. Concerned physicians, ethicists, legal scholars, and economists are urging dramatic reform, including legislative change to permit compensation to donors. Three distinguished panelists will discuss incentives to enhance the supply of lifesaving organs at this forum.
Panelists
Dr. Francis Delmonico - Vice president/president-elect of the Organ Transplant Network/ United Organ Sharing Network
(OPTN/UNOS) board of directors and professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Delmonico serves as a member of U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Advisory Committee on Transplantation, chair of the ethics committee of the Transplantation Society (International), and councilor of the American Society of Transplant Surgeons.
Brian Doherty - Senior editor of Reason magazine. Doherty is the author of This Is Burning Man and Radicals for Capitalism: A History of the Modern American Libertarian Movement, slated for publication in the autumn of 2006. Doherty's work has appeared in The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, Mother Jones, Spin, National Review, The
Weekly Standard, The San Francisco Chronicle, Suck, and dozens of other publications. He served as managing editor
at Regulation magazine from 1993–94.
Dr. Arthur Matas - Professor of Surgery and Director of Renal Transplant Service at the University of Minnesota in
Minneapolis. Dr. Matas serves on the American Society of Transplant Physicians Awards Committee, the International
Society for Organ Sharing, ASTS Nominations Committee, and ASTS Informatics and Data Management Committee. He is a member of several professional societies including American Society of Nephrology, International Society of
Transplantation, and American Society of Transplant Physicians.
San Diego Natural History Museum is located at the intersection of Park Boulevard and Village Place. Parking is available near the north entrance of the building.
Made possible by a generous gift from Joseph Fisch and Joyce Axelrod
This is a private event not hosted by the San Diego Natural History Museum. |
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